Early on in my career, I was working on an e-commerce site. Everything was going fine, features were being delivered, and everything seemed to work in production. Until the equivalent of Black Friday came to Kazakhstan. First, the site was slow. Then, it was an error 503 Site not Available

Nowadays service-oriented applications are becoming very popular. There is no "one" backend. There are multiple services that all communicate with each other. This is all nice and dandy but when you get into the details it gets a bit messy. One of the common fallacies is how do you test